New American Standard Bible 1995
Job 6:4
4For the 1arrows of the Almighty are within me, 2Their 3poison my spirit drinks; The 4terrors of God are arrayed against me.
Job 6:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
- New International Version (NIV)The arrows of the Almighty are in me, my spirit drinks in their poison; God’s terrors are marshaled against me.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; My spirit drinks in their poison; The terrors of God are arrayed against me.
Context of Job 6:4
2“Oh that my grief were actually weighed And laid in the balances together with my calamity! 3For then it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; Therefore my words have been rash. For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, Their poison my spirit drinks; The terrors of God are arrayed against me. 5Does the wild donkey bray over his grass, Or does the ox low over his fodder? 6Can something tasteless be eaten without salt, Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Read all of Job 6Job 6:4 word by word
כִּ֤י חִצֵּ֪י שַׁדַּ֡י עִמָּדִ֗י אֲשֶׁ֣ר חֲ֭מָתָם שֹׁתָ֣ה רוּחִ֑י בִּעוּתֵ֖י אֱל֣וֹהַּ יַֽעַרְכֽוּנִי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 6:4
- Job 16:12I was at ease, but He shattered me, And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces; He has also set me up as His target.
- Deuteronomy 32:23‘I will heap misfortunes on them; I will use My arrows on them.
- Psalms 7:13He has also prepared for Himself deadly weapons; He makes His arrows fiery shafts.
- Psalms 18:14He sent out His arrows, and scattered them, And lightning flashes in abundance, and routed them.
- Psalms 21:12For You will make them turn their back; You will aim with Your bowstrings at their faces.
- Psalms 38:2For Your arrows have sunk deep into me, And Your hand has pressed down on me.
- Psalms 45:5Your arrows are sharp; The peoples fall under You; Your arrows are in the heart of the King’s enemies.
- Lamentations 3:12He bent His bow And set me as a target for the arrow.
- Deuteronomy 32:24They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts I will send upon them, With the venom of crawling things of the dust.
- Psalms 143:7Answer me quickly, O Lord, my spirit fails; Do not hide Your face from me, Or I will become like those who go down to the pit.
- Proverbs 18:14The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, But as for a broken spirit who can bear it?
- Mark 14:33And He took with Him Peter and James and John, and began to be very distressed and troubled.
- Mark 15:34At the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is translated, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
- Job 9:17For He bruises me with a tempest And multiplies my wounds without cause.
- Job 30:15Terrors are turned against me; They pursue my honor as the wind, And my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.
- Job 31:23For calamity from God is a terror to me, And because of His majesty I can do nothing.
Commentaries on Job 6:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4The arrows of the Almighty - There is an evident reference here to wounds inflicted by poisoned arrows; and to the burning fever occasioned by such wounds, producing such an intense parching thirst as to dry up all the moisture in the system, stop all the salivary ducts, thicken and inflame the blood, induce putrescency, and terminate in raging mania, producing the most terrifying images, from which the patient is relieved only by death. This is strongly…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me - That is, it is not a light affliction that I endure. I am wounded in a manner which could not be caused by man - called to endure a severity of suffering which shows that it proceeds from the Almighty. Thus called to suffer what man could not cause, he maintains that it is right for him to complain, and that the words which he employed were not an improper expression of the extent of the grief. The poison…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-4In the Old Testament, arrows symbolize danger, disease, and destruction from God (7:20; 16:12–13; Deuteronomy 32:23–24, 42; Psalms 7:12–13; 38:2; 64:7; 91:5–6; Lamentations 2:4; 3:12–13; Ezekiel 5:16).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. arrows ... within me--have pierced me. A poetic image representing the avenging Almighty armed with bow and arrows (Psa 38:2, 3). Here the arrows are poisoned. Peculiarly appropriate, in reference to the burning pains which penetrated, like poison, into the inmost parts--("spirit"; as contrasted with mere surface flesh wounds) of Job's body. set themselves in array--a military image (Jud 20:33). All the terrors which the divine wrath can muster are set…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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